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24 alternatives to A simple, customizable, lightweight (3.5KB) date picker for jQuery
Hi All, I know there are plenty of date pickers out there, and I've tried/looked at quite a few however they were all either bloated or didn't quite have the features I needed for a site I'm working on. Plus I needed an excuse to learn to write jQuery plugins and learn a few things along the way. :) Some details and features about the plugin: - lightweight (3.5KB compressed JS and 1KB compressed CSS) - forward and back navigation - current date highlight - restricting selection of dates outside of a range - restricting selection of dates beyond N-days from start date - restricting forward /…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A simple, customizable, lightweight (3.5KB) date picker for jQuery launched in 2011; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2012 · dangrossman.info · its alternatives →
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The lightest and the most complete javascript date picker
2021 · felixg.io · its alternatives →
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2024 · leanrada.com · its alternatives →
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jQuery Cards▲264Curated repository of over 1000 quality jQuery plugins
2016 · jquerycards.com · its alternatives →
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Make a beautiful embeddable booking widget in minutes.
2015 · timekit.io · its alternatives →
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⏰ Day.js 2kB immutable date-time library alternative to Moment.js with the same modern API - iamkun/dayjs
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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:umbrella: Lightweight javascript library for DOM manipulation and events
2018 · umbrellajs.com · its alternatives →
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Date range picker component for the modern web. Contribute to sensortower/daterangepicker development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 12DJ
A javascript plugin for intelligently selecting date and time ranges inspired by Google Calendar.
2014 · jonthornton.github.io · its alternatives →
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🗿 Mini jQuery alternative. Dependency-free animations. Locality of Behavior. Use one element or arrays transparently. Pairs with htmx. Vanilla querySelector() but better! - gnat/surreal
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This is a jQuery plugin that takes an array of objects with timeAgo properties and sorts them from newest to oldest. - cjstewart88/sortByTimeAgo
2012 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Effortlessly create single page web sites with this jQuery plugin. - cmpolis/Pagify
2011 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A simple material datepicker . Contribute to mobinni/material-date-picker development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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:calendar: Customizable date (and time) picker. Opt-in UI, no jQuery! - bevacqua/rome
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · eragonj.github.com · its alternatives →
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Creative date range selection, fast, easy to use component
2021 · its alternatives →
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A lightweight date picker built with web components that can be used anywhere - lamplightdev/aeon
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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